Wyatt can talk

Well, I thought I would shoot a little video yesterday. He seemed in the right mood so I gave it a shot. This video will make the hearts of my family ache a little more for the next 16 days to go by a lot faster. Mom, its a nice long one, but it will probably take a little longer to load. Enjoy! (These are just the words I could think of. Some of them are really quiet so you'll have to listen carefully, turn up the volume)

5 kids

We had a fun filled night tonight. Beccah and Michael are out of town are we are watching Kayle and Kyle for the night. No problem, just two more. Then on Monday I got a call asking if we could watch two more, the Perstrope kids. The kids of our new music pastor Chris. They were going to a class party and I know that I would want someone to help me out, so I said sure. They have Tyler who is almost 3 and Chloe who is one month older than Wyatt. We had a great time. The Perstope's just live down the road so Chris just took the kids home and put them to bed and I took care of the rest. Is is now 10:00 and all the kids are in bed and Chris just got back. A nice quite hour before we can't keep our eyes open anymore! Here are some pictures.

Our living room is very small, so if you look closely you can see the different playing stations, Kyle playing a video game, Chloe playing with something, Kayle and Wyatt playing with blocks and Tyler playing with cars, it was a bit crowded.

The crew (l to r) Wyatt, Kyle, Tyler, Chloe, Kayle

They grow up to fast

I was feeling nostalgic last night so I made a slideshow of pictures from when Wyatt was a newborn...about the first 6 months. Its amazing to me how fast they grow! I love being a mommy! You can find the slideshow in the sidebar.

I love this kid!

Wyatt has just been playing in his room and I keep going back to make sure he's staying out of trouble. I just went back and this is how I found him.

What a riot, he literally was playing with his clothes for at least 20 minutes. Having the time of his life!

Thanksgivings over......here comes Christmas

Well, our thanksgiving went great! Chris' parents, brother and new sister-in-law all arrived Tuesday afternoon. They had left Clarks Summit at 4am, these people are crazy. They were a little sleepy, but ready to have fun with the Wy-man, and boy did they ever. Tim had brought Wyatt some new blocks that he had made, Wyatt had so much fun tearing down everything anyone made.

They also brought him a backpack full of books, at first he wasn't so sure what to think of the backpack, but after a while, he didn't want to take it off.

We really enjoyed just laying around the house and playing with the kid. Thanksgiving day was great. I put the turkey in the oven around 8 and then continued preparing everything else. We had green bean casserole, corn casserole, mashed potatoes and gravy, cranberry relish and croissant rolls. I casually got that ready throughout the morning and then when the turkey came out I started running a marathon. Everything turned out wonderful. All the food was finished at the same time, and Chris cut the turkey beautifully! The only glitch in the day was that Wyatt only napped for 1 hour, unlike the day before when we slept for 4. Crazy kid. After dinner, we cleaned up the kitchen and I took a nap :)

After dinner walk with Nana! Boy was it cold!

Friday we took the family to the new American countryside farmers market. We walked around and tasted the food and bought some really yummy kettle corn, perfect blend of salty and sweet! So good! That night Tim and Stacy took Chris and I out for dinner while nana and pop babysat for the first time. Thanks guys! Here's a couple of pictures of Wyatt with Uncle Tim and Aunt Stacy, the first one is Stacy and Wyatt looking at the snow, I know we can't see it in the picture, but...

They left at 4am on Saturday, seriously what's wrong with these people 4am is an ungodly hour! :) We then crashed all weekend. Wyatt had been a little sick and couldn't go to church on Sunday so we really had a great time relaxing! Sunday we put up our Christmas decorations, tis the season! Here's to hoping Wyatt doesn't break all the ornaments!

Here are just a few pictures of our crazy boy, what a riot he is!